As the bus rumbled towards Carmel High School, senior Lina Liu prayed that she would not look like a clown as she shakily practiced doing her eyeliner before school.

Liu felt that she was very easily influenced by the media, which led her to discovering a newfound interest in makeup.

“I was really into TikTok at this time, this was about a couple of years ago when I was a sophomore. I was obsessed with it and would spend a long time scrolling through my for you page. I would come across ‘get ready with me’s’ and see them do their makeup. I don’t know what it was about them but they were just really cool whenever they would do their makeup,” Liu said.

Makeup became a hobby for Liu.

“I didn’t really see it as something I would do in the future, like …
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Being shy is a hard obstacle to overcome in this society, but junior Haymaj Townsend always knows how to overcome it when it comes to sticking up for the right thing. 

Townsend often takes care of her younger brother in her free time.

“There’s not much I like to do in my free time. I feel like I’m very shy and don’t like to socialize that much. What I do the most, though, is watch my little brother. He used to be such a good kid, but his attitude has changed so much and now he’s bad, which makes my job a lot harder. I remember one time he choked while eating some crackers and I had to start doing CPR. I was so scared because he wasn’t spitting it back out, so I ran upstairs to get my mom so that …
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